timestatic

joined 2 years ago
[–] timestatic@feddit.org 1 points 3 hours ago
[–] timestatic@feddit.org 12 points 9 hours ago

Poor guys, they'll starve before that happens

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think its a good thing as many Russians as possible that oppose the war can leave Russia. This makes it harder for Russia to keep their country and economy afloat and potentially reduces the people they can draft to fight. Its just theres also a decent risk of espionage which is why I think some countries, like Poland that border Russia shouldn't have to allow Russians with European Visas to enter their country since its a security risk.

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Depends on inflation and if the service increases/decreases in value for the customer. This is really the personal and hard to measure part.

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sadly our part of the trade deal is 15% tariffs on our part flat and in reverse we put 0% tariffs on anything

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 15 points 1 day ago

Too bad thats not how secular nations work. I could just make up a random religion or worship the spaghetti monster and then sue if I saw something that I considered sin. Most religions say its sin to worship something other than them so I could sue christian churches because from my view they were committing sin

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 9 points 2 days ago

Tool called hammer 🔨👀

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago

Springer is right wing but I think its a bit much to call them Nazi. Also 20% ownership doesn't mean they run the company

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah some days Qwant is a bit unreliable, although for me its at most was a few hours. Qwant is my default but I also have other search engines bound in firefox inspired by DDG Bangs (for example !ddg for searching on DuckDuckGo)

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 10 points 2 days ago

Qwant and Ecosia both work together for the european search index. I think when data is missing also both use bing results in a private manner to substitute entries. For the most part Qwant is quite good imo

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 47 points 2 days ago

Visa and Mastercard, suck it! You do NOT get to decide how I spend MY money. Got it?

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago

Nah I think gog is fine, they're just not the same size (and for linux also not plug & play)

 

I know Wero is still in its infancy and the digital Euro is still a few years away, even if you believe there'll be no delays. But depending on where you live you can already do a lot for EU financial independence.

  • Use cash (very easy but not ideal in many situations/online)
  • Use a national payment providers:
    • Germany 🇩🇪: Girocard
    • Netherlands 🇳🇱: iDEAL
    • France 🇫🇷: Cartes Bancaires
    • Poland 🇵🇱: BLIK
    • Italy 🇮🇹:Bancomat/PagoBancomat
    • Many other options, check for your country
  • Use SEPA direct debit mandate or wire money directly if you can
  • Sign up to a european crypto exchange and use it for direct purchases. although I get if you don't like crypto but this is just for direct purchases

Otherwise American Payment providers usually get at least 1% and if you use card payment a lot over time that can really add up. This also mostly makes sense when buying from a european company. For US companies it really doesn't matter much. I've been trying to replace Amazon with Otto and I use SEPA direct debit mandate to avoid fees.

 

Since I was curious I checked the actual amount of upvotes and downvotes of my post on mbin. It got 56 upvotes and 66 downvotes according to them since I was curious. Seems I hurt their little ego when I mentioned blocking their instance.

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